What Needs To Be Forgotten

Keith loved Shiro. Just think about how he would have felt when the words "Kerberos mission failed, ship crashed, all members presumed dead" flashed along the bottom of every television program?
While you're thinking about that, think of the fallout from that. the entire year after Keith was so distraught that he dropped out of the academy and went on a self destructive streak, only keeping himself alive by following primal instincts, surviving on three hour sleep cycles, skipping meals, and finding escapes to the pain!

Then Imagine when that ship crashed on earth. How much hope it would have inspired in Keith.
What Lance would have thought, seeing Keith and Shiro together, after nearly a year of what he didn't know was meaningless sex.

That's the emotional rollercoaster we're about to take a trip down.